Portal:Renaissance texts

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Renaissance texts

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This is an index of books or other texts from the Renaissance (in English versions that may be linked to their original sources on other language wikis).

Renaissance Texts covers works originally written during the period from about 1420-1630. Texts written before that belong in Portal:Medieval texts, and those written later belong in Portal:Early modern texts.

Sometimes it is unclear whether a text should be considered as "Renaissance", "medieval", or "early modern," especially because the cultural and literary changes of the Renaissance did not occur simultaneously in all parts of Europe. The Renaissance began much later in England than it did in Italy. Further, since the Renaissance was a uniquely European movement; literature from Asia and the Americas written during the same period does not fit neatly into this categorization. In case of doubt, place the book in the period you think most readers would be most likely to look for it. This is no harm in listing it in two Portals, if justified.

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• Authors
• Titles

Contents

Renaissance authors

A

• Georgius Agricola
• Ludovico Ariosto

B

• Francis Bacon
• Giambattista Basile
• Francis Beaumont
• Pierre de Bourdeille

C

• John Calvin
• Luís de Camões
• George Cavendish
• Miguel de Cervantes
• George Chapman
• Petr Chelčický
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Thomas Cranmer

D

• Robert Devereux
• Marin Držić

E

• Desiderius Erasmus

F

• Johannes Fabricius

G

• Galileo Galilei
• William Gilbert

H

• Thomas Heywood
• Raphael Holinshed

J

• John of the Cross
• Ben Jonson

K

• Thomas à Kempis
• Johannes Kepler
• John Knox
• Thomas Kyd

L

• Leonardo da Vinci
• William Lily
• Martin Luther
• John Lyly

M

• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Christopher Marlowe

S

• William Shakespeare
• Edmund Spenser

W

• John Webster

Renaissance texts

A

• The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

C

• Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent

E

• Of Englishe Dogges by John Caius, translated by Abraham Fleming

H

• A Handefull of pleasant delites by Clement Robinson et al.

N

• The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
• The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

P

• The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

S

• The Sidereal Messenger by Galileo Galilei
• The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd

See also

• Portal:Elizabethan drama
• Portal:Renaissance poetry